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In referring to Barberis, Joe is, I think, referring to SHROUD: TRACES OF BLOOD FROM THE "CARBON-14": WHAT DOES SCIENCE SAY, a Google Translation of an article, SINDONE, DALLE TRACCE EMATICHE AL "CARBONIO-14": COSA DICE LA SCIENZA in I favor retesting.

Bill Meacham (The Rape of the Shroud) continues to advocate for it.

Popes have come to gaze on the Shroud; Benedict XVI said when he visited in 2010 that “we see, as in a mirror, our suffering in the suffering of Christ”. They refer to the 1987 Carbon-14 dating and say, “It’s medieval. That settles it.” But the believers bounce back, and year by year, as modern technology advances, more and more evidence accumulates which causes anyone who reads the research to be sceptical of the sceptics.

The most recent claim – that the blood on the Shroud is from a torture victim – has re-opened the debate.

Even the famous Atheist Richard Dawkins admits it is controversial.

Christopher Ramsey, the director of the Oxford Radiocarbon Laboratory, thinks more testing is needed. This is because there are significant scientific and non-religious reasons to doubt the validity of the tests.

There have been expositions in 1998, 2000, 2010 and the current one.

Believers in the Shroud of Turin, however, insist that the Shroud is the substance of this hope and the evidence of this unseen event.It is, they believe, the burial cloth of Jesus Christ.It has been venerated as such for centuries, and since the 17th century, when it came to Turin, has been the cathedral’s best-known treasures.Recent robust statistical studies add weight to this theory.Philip Ball, the former physical science editor for Nature when the carbon dating results were published, recently wrote: “It’s fair to say that, despite the seemingly definitive tests in 1988, the status of the Shroud of Turin is murkier than ever.” If we wish to be scientific we must admit we do not know how old the cloth is.I was checking out some of the videos and stories related to the opening of the exhibition.In one video, Archbishop Nosiglia said the church is not against new testing.Years ago, as a skeptic of the Shroud, I came to realize that while I might believe it was a fake, I could not know so from the facts.Now, as someone who believes it is the real burial shroud of Jesus of Nazareth, I similarly realize that a leap of faith over unanswered questions is essential. One of the new articles quoted Pope John Paul II in 1998 saying continued research should be done.I think researchers have done their part in continuing research but one can only do so much with the 1978 data.

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It can be stated that the 1988 carbon 14 dating of the Shroud of Turin is invalid. Note This should not be confused with the speculative carbon monoxide proposal by Colorado physicist John Jackson, so widely reported in the press. Current Quotes There is a lot of other evidence that suggests to many that the shroud is.